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>My question is this: Is anyone using XLink?
XBRL uses some XLink, SVG uses a little bit, and that's about it.
>How useful do you find it?
XLink provides some nice constructs to help you model the relationships, but
using it won't buy you anything in terms of automation or ease of use when
plugging in tools, which is usually the main reason to use a standard.
>What implementations are out there?
These days, virtually none. I wrote something about how little XLink was
used almost three years ago at
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/03/13/xlink.html and there's been little
progress since.
Are you using an internally developed DTD or a public one that we might have
heard of, like DocBook? Also, how solid of a way to refer to a specific
document do you have? I assume
that "document #335" is just something you made up for an example; is there
an intranet URI or some other internal identifier that can unambiguously
point to a specific document so that a processing system can find it? For
each output medium that those documents will be converted to, can these
identifiers be converted to identifiers that work in that medium? (e.g.
whether or not the internal identifiers are URIs, can then be converted to
URLs when the documents are converted to HTML?)
Bob DuCharme www.snee.com/bob <bob@
snee.com> weblog on linking-related topics:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1191
-----Original Message-----
From: Nadia.Swaby@pwc.ca [mailto:Nadia.Swaby@pwc.ca]
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 11:20 AM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: [xml-dev] XLink - anyone using?
I am a newbie to the list and I would like to say hi!
My question is this: Is anyone using XLink?
What implementations are out there?
Background: I am work for a big aerospace company and we are converting all
out procedures from Framemaker to XML. Everything is stored in Documentum.
These procedures have tons of links: Links to other procedures, links to MS
Office documents, but mostly, links to other sections in the same procedure.
We have our Documentum XML application set up so that each section is a
chunk. Therefore, we can't use an internal (IDREF) linking mechanism when
linking between sections. So, I am trying to figure out what the best
method of linking between sections would be. I am also looking at linking
between sections in other documents (i.e. document #331 section 3 has a link
to document #335 section 5).
Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
Nadia Swaby
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